Senior Software Engineer

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Microsoft Dublin Identity Authorization team, you will collaborate with other Engineers, Product Managers and leadership teams to create value for our customers by building top quality AuthZ solutions. We embrace a culture that is customer focused, delivers continuously, drives engineering excellence, obsesses about Security, performance, and is collaborative, fun-loving, and iterative. Join a strong team building highly available, performant, scalable, secure product. This role offers an exciting opportunity to tackle complex authorization challenges that our customers encounter. You will be directly involved in shaping the design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of our cutting-edge solution. It's a chance to make a direct impact on the success of our top-of-the-line product.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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Required: 

• Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Rust, Go, Java or C++. Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud: Understanding of cloud infrastructure and services.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills: Ability to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.
• Proven experience in building scalable and reliable software solutions.
• 5+ years architecting distributed systems.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills: ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineers, service teams, and external customers.
• Expertise in identity and authentication protocols and authorization standards.
• Multi cloud and services experience.
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
• Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Design and develop features for large scale distributed software services and solutions. 
• Communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries and customers.
• Adhere to modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews. 
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. 
• Write clean and optimized code, improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.